Sentence examples for provocative venture from inspiring English sources

Again, given the timing, this couldn't have been a response to the legal actions that the provocative venture capitalist Peter Thiel has taken against Gawker, but it certainly felt like one.

And though Shakespeare may never have known a Jew, Shylock's tragic dimension has given rise to an unsettling ambiguity winding through centuries of theatrical history to this moment: a provocative meta-theatrical venture seeking nothing less than the chance to set Shylock free".

His foreign ventures are provocative.

Mr. Catsimatidis has been relentless in attacking Mr. Lhota with television commercials and mailings, and he ventured into provocative territory in the debate, criticizing Mr. Lhota for communication problems among first responders on Sept. 11 and the city's decision to locate its emergency operations headquarters at the World Trade Center.

The provocation proved provocative.

According to Dan Brown's parallel argument in The Da Vinci Code, Cameron's venture is so provocative he may now have to spend the rest of his life watching over his shoulder for homicidal albino monks.

The Washington, D.C. based venture capitalist produced a provocative documentary, 2 Million Minutes, which tracked six students two each in the U.S., India, and China during their senior year of high school.

ESPN is also running a provocative outdoor advertising campaign, created by 77 Ventures.

This is perhaps the most provocative and accomplished example of a fictitious business venture undertaken by an artist.

Beautiful singing, provocative melodies - and a bolder, more confident venture than Mehldau's previous classical album, Elegiac Cycle.

On Aug. 14, State Department and National Security Council spokesmen termed Israel's pinpoint venture into the West Bank city of Jenin "provocative" (news article, Aug. 15).